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Drifters and Particle tracking. Charles Seaton. Uses of drifters and particle tracking. Search and Rescue: SAROPS Oil Spills: GNOME ( animation ) Science: Where does the water go? Way to measure data at sea for extended periods of time. Planning: Where will the drifter go?.
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Drifters and Particle tracking Charles Seaton
Uses of drifters and particle tracking • Search and Rescue: SAROPS • Oil Spills: GNOME (animation) • Science: • Where does the water go? • Way to measure data at sea for extended periods of time. • Planning: Where will the drifter go?
Particle tracking in the model • Glider rescue: http://www.stccmop.org/news/2010/modeling-technology-supports-glider-rescue • Glider rescue animation: http://www.stccmop.org/~pturner/glider-ptrack2.avi • Particle cloud animation: http://www.stccmop.org/~pturner/drogs3.avi • Particle tracking in Southern California: http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov/SCB/ • Particle tracking in CMOP model coming soon…
Drifter Programs CMOP drifters in model context: CMOP MATE Drifters (under development): http://core02.stccmop.org/datamart/observation_network/driftermissions ARGO Floats: http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/Global Drifters (in google maps)Global drifters: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/dac_animations.phpSouthern California: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/drifter/deployments/index.php http://www.stccmop.org/corie/cruise_support?year=2008&month=09&day=01&time=00%3A15&durationunits=days&duration=30&rtype=14&var=salt_surface&velvar=none&cutoff=5&zsize=10&zoomto=zoom&map.x=325&map.y=247&map=image&drifter=on&drifterid=111&backgrounds=None&marky=&markx=&llformat=DDMM&extent=-127.988651002+43.2341+-121.499448998+49.1323&image=%2Fscripts%2Ftmp%2F4c3e0ff1_3eb8_3.PNG&tool=zoomin&mapwidth=550&mapheight=500
Ideas for drifters • Message on an orange: http://www.une.edu/news/2008/orangedrifters08.cfm • Dr. Charles Tilburg http://faculty.une.edu/cas/ctilburg/research/index.htm • Message in a bottle: 10-20% recovery rate! But you only get start and endpoint. • Rubber duckies: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/31/eveningnews/main566138.shtml • MATE project: http://coseenow.net/mate/ • North East Fisheries Science Center: http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/epd/ocean/MainPage/lob/driftdesign.html • Gulf of Maine drifters: http://gisweb.wh.whoi.edu/cgi-bin/ioos/drift/index.html (both visualizations and descriptions of how to make inexpensive drifters)
Gulf of Maine River Plumes and HABs: http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/25/9/1131 • Merrimack River Plume research: http://www.smast.umassd.edu/CEFM/mermade.htm